Life & fun · February 12, 2014
Visualising how streaming AJAX speeds up the web
A streaming approach to JSON. Oboe.js is a Javascript library for Node.js and browsers that speeds up web applications by providing parsed objects before the response completes
Visualising how streaming AJAX speeds up the web launched on February 12, 2014 with 13 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Oboe.js is a JavaScript library for Node.js and browsers that implements a streaming approach to JSON. It speeds up web applications by parsing and delivering JSON objects before the complete response arrives, reducing wait times in AJAX-based interfaces. The library is no longer maintained but remains available as an archived project from 2013.
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This project is no longer being maintained. It was my Masters dissertation in 2013, and gained some 4,800+ github stars back in the day. The site is being kept up in all its last-decade, jQuery-rendered glory. Enjoy the animations and learn how I made them . Interested what I've been working on since? Check out my github and maybe 🕹️ play my retro-game This page was written to show how streaming can speed up applications. The examples illustrated show web interfaces using AJAX to pull in new data but the same techniques would apply equally well anywhere that REST is used. Let’s start by examining the standard pattern found on most AJAX-powered sites. We have a client-side web application…from oboejs.com
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